serves one up to jon jay. puts this one to bed. sandoval had two home runs but it was merely window dressing. the cardinals win 8-3. the giants will have to run the table if they want to stay alive. >> no other choice. if we lose tomorrow, we go home and we're not ready for that. we can do this. we believe we can do this. we're gonna come back tomorrow and play strong. >> get a couple runs early, off tim. allow adam to settle in a little bit. a lot of times, with great pitchers like tim, if you don't get him early, he's score. >> we've had so many big games for this franchise, how disappointing would it be not to come through in this situation? >> extremely disappointing. when you don't do it, it's just -- not much farther to fall i guess. >> we'll bring it back to san francisco. >> reporter: and the yankees also losers to detroit. detroit going to the world series. hard to put the 49ers on the back burner. they are in a huge matchup. alex smith hoping to put that three interception game against the giants behind him. third quarter